TY - CHAP AU - Francis Mundia Mwangi AU - Yasushi Enomoto AU - Sungchan Hong AU - Saravana Perumal Shanmugam AU - Xiaojie Tian AU - Elijah Gitonga Rintaugu AU - Noriyuki Fuku AU - Tetsuhiro Kidokoro ED - Redha Taiar Y1 - 2021-09-21 PY - 2021 T1 - Sports Science and Efforts towards Sub-Two Hour Marathon Performance N2 - Sports are very important and help people increase mobility, optimize performance, and reduce their risk of disease. Sporting activities can have beneficial social, cultural, economic, and psychological effects on health, wellbeing, and the environment. As such, this book discusses a range of principles, methods, techniques, and tools to provide the reader with a clear knowledge of variables improving sports’ performance processes. Over three sections, chapters consider physical, mechanical, physiological, psychological, and biomechanical aspects of sports performance, sports science, human posture, and musculoskeletal disorders. BT - Contemporary Advances in Sports Science SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100005 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.100005 SN - 978-1-83969-141-6 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -